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Karen Leyman Leen Thienpondt

Di( ver ) sability Awareness Searching for new lines of flight  Support Center for Inclusive Higher Education . Karen Leyman Leen Thienpondt. Support Center. Support Center Need for awareness Workshop 1.0 Unintentionally … Workshop 2.0. Support all Flemish higher education institutions.

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  1. Di(ver)sability AwarenessSearching for new lines of flight Support Center for Inclusive Higher Education Karen Leyman LeenThienpondt

  2. Support Center • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • Support all Flemish higher education institutions

  3. Support Center • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Goals? • Realize inclusive higher education • Equal opportunities • Full participation

  4. Support Center • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 How? • Bottom-up • In dialogue

  5. Support Center • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • Part of an international network: www.thelinknetwork.eu

  6. Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • Increased enrollment among students with a disability in higher education. “Students with disability find their way to university” (29/11/2011)

  7. Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Real questions… • What are the appropriate adjustments for (all) students with label dyslexia? • What to do when an autistic student comes into my class? • How to handlestudents with ADHD? • …

  8. Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 International research • “students and faculty still feel awkwardness, embarrassment, or pity when interacting with persons with disabilities” (Bruder & Mogro-Wilson, 2010) • “Students and faculty voiced concern that their actions or conversation might have been inappropriate.” (Bruder & Mogro-Wilson, 2010)

  9. Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • “students’ experiences in higher education depended to a great extent on the level of awareness of the members of the staff they came into contact with.” (Tinklin & Hall, 1999) • “Negative attitudes were the single biggest barrier reported by participants” (Hanafinet al., 2007) • “Attitudinal barriers' is recognized widely as an impediment to success of persons with disabilities” (Rao, 2004)

  10. Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • “Faculty at institutions of higher education need to be better informed to improve their attitudes” (Rao, 2004) • “… findings indicate that students and faculty would benefit from, for example a disability awareness campaign aimed at students and faculty to increase interaction and understanding of disability.” (Bruder & Mogro-Wilson, 2010)

  11. Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • “Attention needs to be paid to raising awareness amongst all staff of the institution, including academic, support and service staff.” (Tinklin & Hall, 1999) • “…address the challenge of how genuinely to celebrate and embrace differences among students.” (Tinklin & Hall, 1999)

  12. Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Flemish research (Soetaert, 2011): • “There’s often a lack of understanding, when I say ‘I have autism’, they instantly have an image of a person who’s sitting in the corner of the room. All those prejudices, it’s not nice.” • “That’s not possible, dyslexia doesn’t exist.”

  13. Need for awareness… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Flemish research (Soetaert, 2011): • “They see a healthy person, but actually I’m not healthy. (…) I think it would be easier if I had lost a leg, so they can see there is something.” • “I had an attack and I heard her say: “Ah that’s not epilepsy” or “He shows off”. You also get those kind of comments.”

  14. Workshop 1.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • Make persons aware of their attitude towards persons with a disability. • Tips and advice.

  15. Workshop 1.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • Terms • Stereotypes • Barriers • Disability as a social construct • Ableism • Tips

  16. Unintentially … • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 As a reflective practitioner…

  17. Unintentially… • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Myths: • They are helplessanddepending on us… • Theyplay the victimroletoreceiveanallowanceandadditional support.

  18. Di(ver)sability Awareness

  19. Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 • Encourage people to reflect. Perspectives on disability. Construction of categories. Own attitudes. • Non-stereotypical depiction. • Respect for diversity

  20. Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0

  21. Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Canyoufind the person with a disability?

  22. Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Difference Differenciation

  23. Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0

  24. Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0

  25. Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Exercise: • In need of support

  26. Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Exercise: • Who am I ?

  27. Workshop 2.0 • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0 Exercise: • Groups & Identity

  28. “The map of a nomadic topos is unlike any other map; it is at once map and territory. It is onrepresentational, which is to say, it does not represent but makes connectionsand projects new lines of flight. Each concept in the map is also a living circuit of becoming, rather than a dead icon. It is a becoming-map — therefore, one cannot read this map with the idea of a referent; one can only experiment with it, insert oneself into the making of it even as one constructs it. (Roy, 2003, p.80, cited in Steeves, 2012).

  29. Questions? Remarks? • Support Center • Needfor awareness • Workshop 1.0 • Unintentionally… • Workshop 2.0

  30. Thankyouforyour attention!Contact detailsKaren.Leyman@siho.beLeen.Thienpondt@siho.beinfo@siho.bewww.siho.be and follow us on

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